I found this memoir to be fascinating, compulsively readable, and fairly introspective. The writing style was engaging and I kept wanting to read the next chapter. I also found the protagonist likeable and was rooting for her even when she was making clearly terrible choices (as she acknowledged throughout). That said, I wished that there was less of a focus on her escapades and more of a focus on her internal experience -- I found those sections more interesting overall.

The author has had extensive experience in the food world, most notably as assistant to both Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdain. She has co-authored books with both men.

In this intriguing book, she documents her life during this period. She describes in detail the humiliation and exhilaration of working with Batali, a known womanizer. She describes in detail her mostly positive experience assisting Bourdain in his cookbooks, his travels, his television shows.

She also describes in detail her own troubled life: alcoholic, married to a man she isn't sure she loves, cheating, her eventual path to recovery and their eventual divorce.

Thanks to NetGalley for the eARC.